All this talk about making sure that Israel avoids civilian casualties is a calculated insult. Israel is the most careful military in the world to avoid civilian casualties. Old Joe should be pressuring Hamas to stop launching attacks from civilian areas. But he is more likely to slip them a few billion.
“How Joe Biden got on board with a wartime trip to Israel – and what he hopes to accomplish,” by Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak, Kayla Tausche, MJ Lee, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, CNN, October 17, 2023:
It took an explicit commitment from his Israeli counterpart to open Gaza for humanitarian aid for President Joe Biden to agree to make an extraordinary wartime trip to Tel Aviv.
While the trip will amount to a dramatic show of support for Israel as it prepares its response to last week’s Hamas attacks, it will also act as Biden’s strongest push for easing the suffering of civilians and allowing those who want to leave Gaza out.
The high-stakes diplomacy with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his interlocutor of four decades, underscores the delicate balance Biden is striking as he embarks upon the last-minute wartime visit later on Tuesday evening.
At stake are the lives of millions of civilians, including Americans, currently stuck in the coastal Palestinian enclave where a humanitarian crisis is underway as Israeli troops mass at its borders ahead of an expected ground invasion.
While there was no explicit stipulation from the US that Israel not launch its invasion until Biden leaves the region, that’s the understanding among American officials who have spent the past several days debating and planning the president’s visit, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
American officials want humanitarian plans for Gaza fully signed off on and implemented before start of the invasion, the people said, describing that task as among Biden’s main objectives during his visit to Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
While Biden has stopped well short of encouraging a ceasefire – the word hasn’t been used at all in the administration’s response so far – he has issued steadily stronger warnings about protecting civilian life, including during his telephone calls with Netanyahu.Traveling to Israel in person may provide Biden – who despises Zoom calls and has long espoused the importance of face-to-face meetings – a better opportunity to convey those views to his Israeli counterpart, a leader with whom he believes he has a deep understanding.
Ultimately, Biden and his senior aides believe that they need to be in the room with Netanyahu to have influence with the prime minister and his team – requiring unequivocal support for Israel’s right to defend itself and eliminate Hamas….
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden , as usual, speaks nothing but balderdash
Since Hamas viciously and murderously stated this war, the government authorities and officials of the State of Israel have a duty and responsibility to strike Hamas hard and many very strong ways of military force.
As the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, rightly and wisely, in a speech had declared, “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
Jon Sobieski says
Why is Biden going to Israel in the middle of the early stage of this war? The timing seems nutty. There is active rocket activity and here comes the Biden show boat/crazy train. It just feels like a disaster in the making.
Walter Sieruk says
There is a great difference between the fool and terrible “advice” of Joe Biden, of “Not hitting Hamas too hard” As if such, a thing is possible and in contrast, the wisdom spoken by a genuine US President, Thomas Jefferson, who had rightly said “With every barbarous people….force is law.”
It should also be added that the jihadists who make up Hamas cannot and will not take heed of reason or logic. The only language that they are capable of understanding is that of the language of the might of a strong brutal military might. Therefore, they should be dealt with that way.
Walte rSieruk says
After those most recent bloody murderous jihadist attacks by Muslims by Muslim terrorists of Hamas , an Israeli government official, rightly and wisely , said “They made a big mistake.”
The jihadists of Hamas did ,indeed, did make a “big mistake.” For it’s very fitting and even necessary that the Israeli military and police need to and have to engage in extensive measures of retribution for those Hamas terror /murder attacks.
For it’s very obvious that the jihadists who make up Hamas only understand the language of violent brutal force, therefore that’s exactly they should be dealt with.
Kenneth Corbett says
I agree,Hamas is not a “friend to their own people”
maria says
Hamas is a subhuman murderers who only live for killing people
Eva says
It’s my personal belief that biden is really going there to inform Bibi that those American armaments will be pointed at Israel if he doesn’t toe the administration line. I hope Bibi isn’t stupid enough to cave.
The corrupt, lying biden doesn’t care a bit about Jews being slaughtered, he’s proved that time after time. Who could forget Menachem Begin’s amazing ‘I am not a Jew with trembling knees’ speech to him decades ago?
Nothing has changed in all the years since.
mike says
Biden is going to Israel to give Hamas to regroup
watch
FYI says
Joe Biden is going on vacation.His mind obviously is on vacation already’
Given that he has dementia and appears to be cognitively impaired.
He has no idea what planet he is on.
How can people be falling for this?He’s obviously NOT in charge of anything and is unlikely to be capable of important military decisions.
The Puppet Show continues..
James Lincoln says
FYI says,
“He’s obviously NOT in charge of anything and is unlikely to be capable of important military decisions.”
Yes.
The results of a fraudulent 2020 US Presidential election.
Tragic beyond tragic.
FYI says
White House
Joe:I”ll sign that..Troop deployments to western Ukraine,Drafting women into the military and send the Transgender Troopers to Iran..oh and a happy Ramabamdam card for the muslim p.m of England .Richie Sunnook
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The Palis and Jordan have cancelled their meeting w/ him
Eva says
That’s okay.
He’ll just slip them a few billion dollars for their terrorist fund, and all will be well.
mgoldberg says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xwPA57xOXA Caroline Glick discusses the real reasons behind Bidens trip to Israel tomorrow.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Thank you for the video. I watched it, and it’s awful that Israel is allowing Biden to blackmail them. What Israel ought to do is start dual-sourcing its weaponry from not just the US, but also Russia. Start buying Russian weaponry in quantities competitive w/ what Russia’s muslim customers are buying (Syria, Iran, Turkey) so that Russia will start having to monkey-balance b/w Israel and those countries. Israel needs the power to show the 🖕 to the US, at least when Dems are running things. The last 4 Dem POTUS’ that we’ve had have been virulently anti-Israel: Carter, Clinton, Obama and now Biden
Also, what Caroline Glick stated was that the reason Israel hasn’t moved into Gaza as yet is that they can’t start this operation until Biden leaves. If that’s the case, they should start the operation immediately as Biden flies out of Ben Gurion. Let Hamas or Islamic Jihad send rockets in, and let the Iron Dome/Iron Beam/whatever not intercept one headed at the airport. Since the Dems don’t respond to any real attack on the US, they probably won’t respond to Hamas shooting down Air Force One
OLD GUY says
Who ever came up with the idea that you can win a WAR without civil casualties will NEVER win a war.
Henry Schalk says
The Real (and Awful) Reason Biden is Coming to Israel | The Caroline Glick Show IN FOCUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xwPA57xOXA